title: Breast-feeding and child-spacing: importance of information collection for public health policy.
abstract: The presence of lactational amenorrhoea cannot be fully relied upon to protect the individual mother against becoming pregnant. Nevertheless, the use of breast-feeding as a birth-spacing mechanism has important implications for global health policy. This article identifies the information that should be collected and examined as a basis for developing guidelines on how to reduce the dual protection afforded by postpartum lactational amenorrhoea and other family planning methods, and discusses when such methods should be introduced.
authors.affiliation: Nutrition unit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Saadeh
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Benbouzid
mesh_terms: D001721:Birth Intervals; D001942:Breast Feeding; D003267:Contraception / Q000379:methods*; D003906:Developing Countries; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011634:Public Health